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in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

All the more so because I see no lies. 😖 We’d need something like massive degrowth + some energy source like nuclear power to keep us afloat until we learn to live within our means. And that’s assuming we can collectively get our shit together which we’ve already shown we’re mo good at.
in reply to Arthur P. Dent

Hey I have a way to cut down on electricity use!

Get rid of all crypto currency.
It takes 6,400,000kwh to make 1 bitcoin.

In perspective, an average American house uses 800 - 1,000 kwh per month or 9,000 to 12,000 kwh per year.

So at the upper amount, making 1 bitcoin could power 533 homes for a year.

PS: It's not real money & a quantum computer will make it absolutely worthless b/c it will make a bitcoin in about 30 seconds.

in reply to Darcy

@Mor696 It’s part of the problem but hardly all of it. The real problems are our population and unchecked capitalism.
in reply to Arthur P. Dent

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in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

I’m assuming they weren’t conscious but we really have no way of knowing.

And I get big picture relativism as a coping strategy. From the perspective of the vast universe we’re barely a blip in space or time but since it’s *our space* and *our time* and the only one we’ll ever know, it has significance to us.

People are suffering and dying and in many cases it’s avoidable. Being conscious, we can appreciate tragedy as well as irony.

in reply to Arthur P. Dent

When I wrote "conscious," I meant that the intellectual capabilities were sufficient.

Also: #BigOilKnew for decades but has been trying to mislead the public with PR campaigns:

mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1097…

It really is the insatiable greed of certain individuals that is destroying the basis of the current global biosphere.

in reply to Arthur P. Dent

The Earth, and life upon it, will continue without us. But that will be cold comfort to us, and no comfort at all to the billions that will starve and suffer.
in reply to Arthur P. Dent

Absolutely correct.

Also, because #BigOilKnew I'm therefore demanding to make them pay for the cumulative damages they've been causing to our #biosphere and humanity:

#NationalizeBigOil!
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1120…